@fredkrome.bsky.social
History teacher, SciFi geek. Friend to dogs and cats.
Once again I have decided to turn down the company's generous offer of savings if I just signed on for autopay:
April 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Once again I have decided to turn down the company's generous offer of savings if I just signed on for autopay:
After reading this all I could think of (warning historian joke): "Admiral Yamamoto recommends the U.S. not retaliate for Pearl Harbor."
Treasury Secretary Bessent tells countries not to retaliate after sweeping 'Liberation Day' tariffs
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unpacks the Trump administration's sweeping retaliatory tariffs on "Special Report."
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April 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
After reading this all I could think of (warning historian joke): "Admiral Yamamoto recommends the U.S. not retaliate for Pearl Harbor."
Cincinnati area friends: I'll be speaking at Bockfest on March 9th at Moerlein.
February 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Cincinnati area friends: I'll be speaking at Bockfest on March 9th at Moerlein.
Politicians who use the word "freedom" in campaigns are almost certainly going to try and restrict women's freedom if they get elected.
Legislation that has the words "free speech" in it are almost certainly designed to limit such a thing: see Ohio's newly passed Ed Bill for ex
Legislation that has the words "free speech" in it are almost certainly designed to limit such a thing: see Ohio's newly passed Ed Bill for ex
February 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Politicians who use the word "freedom" in campaigns are almost certainly going to try and restrict women's freedom if they get elected.
Legislation that has the words "free speech" in it are almost certainly designed to limit such a thing: see Ohio's newly passed Ed Bill for ex
Legislation that has the words "free speech" in it are almost certainly designed to limit such a thing: see Ohio's newly passed Ed Bill for ex
....and now, for no particular reason, Harper Lee the cat and her opinion on the weather.
January 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
....and now, for no particular reason, Harper Lee the cat and her opinion on the weather.
Still coming down.
January 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Still coming down.
I get the feeling Gillian is either expressing her disappointment or judging me. Of course these two things are not contradictory.
January 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I get the feeling Gillian is either expressing her disappointment or judging me. Of course these two things are not contradictory.
I often start a semester by asking students a simple question: why should they study history?
One of the myriad of possible answers is often overlooked.
If you study history you are less likely to make yourself look stupid.
Hint: look up Berlin Olympics, 1936.
One of the myriad of possible answers is often overlooked.
If you study history you are less likely to make yourself look stupid.
Hint: look up Berlin Olympics, 1936.
January 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I often start a semester by asking students a simple question: why should they study history?
One of the myriad of possible answers is often overlooked.
If you study history you are less likely to make yourself look stupid.
Hint: look up Berlin Olympics, 1936.
One of the myriad of possible answers is often overlooked.
If you study history you are less likely to make yourself look stupid.
Hint: look up Berlin Olympics, 1936.
Soldiers of the Central Powers celebrate Hanukkah (1916). As I was researching for class I also found out Habsburg troops were deployed in small numbers to the Ottoman front. Then I stumbled across this image of Jewish soldiers of Austro-Hungarian army at the Wailing Wall. I think it is also 1916.
December 25, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Soldiers of the Central Powers celebrate Hanukkah (1916). As I was researching for class I also found out Habsburg troops were deployed in small numbers to the Ottoman front. Then I stumbled across this image of Jewish soldiers of Austro-Hungarian army at the Wailing Wall. I think it is also 1916.
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New publication announcement - A Tale of Two Fronts: A German Soldier's Journey through World War I by Hans Schiller, edited by @fredkrome.bsky.social and Gregory Loving, translated by Karin Wagner.
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December 23, 2024 at 4:51 PM
New publication announcement - A Tale of Two Fronts: A German Soldier's Journey through World War I by Hans Schiller, edited by @fredkrome.bsky.social and Gregory Loving, translated by Karin Wagner.
DON'T FORGET - use discount code 24HOLIDAY2024 to receive 50% off: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700638000/.
DON'T FORGET - use discount code 24HOLIDAY2024 to receive 50% off: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700638000/.
I have the best friends!
December 21, 2024 at 9:47 PM
I have the best friends!
After several years of work, and some bumps along the way, this has finally arrived.
December 19, 2024 at 7:55 PM
After several years of work, and some bumps along the way, this has finally arrived.
Mensch on a Bench and Hanukkah Gnomes, take that Elf on a Shelf!
December 14, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Mensch on a Bench and Hanukkah Gnomes, take that Elf on a Shelf!
A fun aspect of researching SciFi hist is reading the works of lesser known writers who produced a huge volume for the American pulp magazines. Ex: Vargo Statten, psud. of John Russell Fearn (1908-60) an Englishman who wrote several dozen Westerns, Mysteries, and SciFi stories.
December 13, 2024 at 8:32 PM
A fun aspect of researching SciFi hist is reading the works of lesser known writers who produced a huge volume for the American pulp magazines. Ex: Vargo Statten, psud. of John Russell Fearn (1908-60) an Englishman who wrote several dozen Westerns, Mysteries, and SciFi stories.
SciFi Hist: future war scenarios tell us a lot about the anxieties of a particular era, and the expectations (or lack thereof) of technological change and it's impact on war.
December 13, 2024 at 3:45 PM
SciFi Hist: future war scenarios tell us a lot about the anxieties of a particular era, and the expectations (or lack thereof) of technological change and it's impact on war.
SciFi Hist: Hugo Gernsback (1953) suggested that nuclear bombs be used to defend against a communist "air armada." Gernsback apparently missed the meeting which described the R & D of the Jewish Space Laser. TBF, the laser only came to light thanks to the ravings of a certain member of congress.
December 13, 2024 at 3:08 AM
SciFi Hist: Hugo Gernsback (1953) suggested that nuclear bombs be used to defend against a communist "air armada." Gernsback apparently missed the meeting which described the R & D of the Jewish Space Laser. TBF, the laser only came to light thanks to the ravings of a certain member of congress.
Excuse me, what did you say the wind chill temperature is this morning?
December 4, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Excuse me, what did you say the wind chill temperature is this morning?
When's does spring training begin?
November 29, 2024 at 11:05 PM
When's does spring training begin?
Anyone else think that reality is outpacing the Onion?
November 26, 2024 at 1:28 AM
Anyone else think that reality is outpacing the Onion?
Now they tell me....
November 24, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Now they tell me....
I am reminded periodically of the line from Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead: "Life is a gamble, at terrible odds-if it was a bet you wouldn't
take it."
Not suffering from any particular malady today, just thinking of the play when I was reading the news earlier.
take it."
Not suffering from any particular malady today, just thinking of the play when I was reading the news earlier.
November 19, 2024 at 10:47 PM
I am reminded periodically of the line from Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead: "Life is a gamble, at terrible odds-if it was a bet you wouldn't
take it."
Not suffering from any particular malady today, just thinking of the play when I was reading the news earlier.
take it."
Not suffering from any particular malady today, just thinking of the play when I was reading the news earlier.
Wow, what an incentive to go to auto pay:
November 17, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Wow, what an incentive to go to auto pay:
Saturday book recommendation (will probably post any day of the week but felt I needed a header): Samuel's restores Dreyfus to the center of what contemporaries called or just "The Affair." The Affair mainstreamed Antisemitism into French politics & brought the republic to the brink of civil war.
November 16, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Saturday book recommendation (will probably post any day of the week but felt I needed a header): Samuel's restores Dreyfus to the center of what contemporaries called or just "The Affair." The Affair mainstreamed Antisemitism into French politics & brought the republic to the brink of civil war.
